Télécharger le livre :  Epictetus

The philosophy of Epictetus, a freed slave in the Roman Empire, has been profoundly influential on Western thought: it offers not only stimulating ideas but practical guidance in living one's life. A. A. Long, a leading scholar of later ancient philosophy, gives the...
Editeur : Clarendon Press
Parution : 2002-01-10

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Télécharger le livre :  The British Peace Movement 1870-1914

This is the first detailed scholarly study of the late Victorian and Edwardian peace movement, the campaigns of which made a significant impact on political debate, especially during the Franco-Prussian War (1870-1), the Bulgarian Atrocities campaign (1876-8), Britain's...
Editeur : Clarendon Press
Parution : 2002-01-03

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Télécharger le livre :  How Things Persist

How do things persist? Are material objects spread out through time just as they are spread out through space? Or is temporal persistence quite different from spatial extension? This key question lies at the heart of any metaphysical exploration of the material world,...
Editeur : Clarendon Press
Parution : 2002-01-03

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Télécharger le livre :  Spinoza's Heresy

At the heart of Spinoza's Heresy is a mystery: why was Baruch Spinoza so harshly excommunicated from the Amsterdam Jewish community at the age of twenty-four? In this philosophical sequel to his acclaimed, award-winning biography of the seventeenth-century thinker,...
Editeur : Clarendon Press
Parution : 2001-12-06

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Télécharger le livre :  Wittgenstein: Connections and Controversies

Wittgenstein: Connections and Controversies consists of thirteen thematically linked essays on different aspects of the philosophy of Wittgenstein, by one of the leading commentators on his work. After an opening overview of Wittgenstein's philosophy the following...
Editeur : Clarendon Press
Parution : 2001-11-22

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Télécharger le livre :  Human Nature and the Limits of Science

John Dupré warns that our understanding of human nature is being distorted by two faulty and harmful forms of pseudo-scientific thinking. Not just in the academic world but increasingly in everyday life, we find one set of experts seeking to explain the ends at which...
Editeur : Clarendon Press
Parution : 2001-11-08

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Télécharger le livre :  Facing Facts

Facing Facts is a powerful, original examination of attempts to dislodge a cornerstone of modern philosophy: the idea that our thoughts and utterances are representations of slices of reality. Representations that are accurate are usually said to be true, to correspond...
Editeur : Clarendon Press
Parution : 2001-11-01

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Télécharger le livre :  Four-Dimensionalism

Four-Dimensionalism defends the thesis that the material world is composed of temporal as well as spatial parts. This defense includes a novel account of persistence over time, new arguments in favour of the four-dimensional ontology, and responses to the challenges...
Editeur : Clarendon Press
Parution : 2001-10-25

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Télécharger le livre :  Calendar and Community

Calendar and Community traces the development of the Jewish calendar from its origins until it reached, in the tenth century CE, its present form. Drawing on a wide range of often neglected sources - literary, documentary, epigraphic, Jewish, Graeco-Roman and Christian...
Editeur : Clarendon Press
Parution : 2001-10-04

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Télécharger le livre :  Essays on Actions and Events

Philosophical Essays of Donald Davidson
Editeur : Clarendon Press
Parution : 2001-09-27

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Télécharger le livre :  Inquiries into Truth and Interpretation

Donald Davidson presents a new edition of the 1984 volume which set out his enormously influential philosophy of language. Inquiries into Truth and Interpretation has been a central point of reference and a focus of controversy in the subject ever since, and its...
Editeur : Clarendon Press
Parution : 2001-09-27

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Télécharger le livre :  Subjective, Intersubjective, Objective

Subjective, Intersubjective, Objective is the long-awaited third volume of philosophical writings by Donald Davidson, whose influence on philosophy since the 1960s has been deep and broad. His first two collections, published by OUP in the early 1980s, are recognized as...
Editeur : Clarendon Press
Parution : 2001-09-27

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Télécharger le livre :  The Child's View of the Third Reich in German Literature

This book examines the ways in which German authors have used the child's perspective to present the Third Reich. It considers how children at this time were brought up and educated to accept unquestioningly National Socialist ideology, and thus questions the...
Editeur : Clarendon Press
Parution : 2001-08-23

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Télécharger le livre :  Aspects of Reason

Reasons and reasoning were central to the work of Paul Grice, one of the most influential and admired philosophers of the late twentieth century. In the John Locke Lectures that Grice delivered in Oxford at the end of the 1970s, he set out his fundamental thoughts...
Editeur : Clarendon Press
Parution : 2001-06-28

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Télécharger le livre :  Epistemic Justification

Richard Swinburne offers an original treatment of a question at the heart of epistemology: what makes a belief a rational one, or one which the believer is justified in holding? He maps the various totally different and purportedly rival accounts that philosophers give...
Editeur : Clarendon Press
Parution : 2001-06-21

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Télécharger le livre :  Musical Works and Performances

What are musical works? Are they discovered or created? Of what elements are they comprised? How are they specified by notations?What makes a performance of one piece and not another? Is it possible to perform old music authentically? Can ethnic music influenced by...
Editeur : Clarendon Press
Parution : 2001-06-07

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Télécharger le livre :  Approach to Aesthetics

Approach to Aesthetics is the complete collection of Frank Sibley's articles on philosophical aesthetics. Their appearance within a single volume will be welcome to scholars and students of aesthetics. The value of the book is greatly enhanced by the inclusion of five...
Editeur : Clarendon Press
Parution : 2001-05-24

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Télécharger le livre :  Objects and Persons

There are no statues. Or rocks. Or chairs. Or stars. But there are microscopic objects arranged statuewise and rockwise and chairwise and starwise. Moreover, there are--in addition to microscopic objects arranged humanwise--composite human beings. Or so Trenton Merricks...
Editeur : Clarendon Press
Parution : 2001-05-24

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Télécharger le livre :  Monasteries and Patrons in the Gorze Reform

The prominent role of monasteries in the early medieval period is comprehensively explored in this illuminating study of the relations between monasteries and the nobility in Lotharingia throughout the ninth and tenth centuries. It focuses on the evidence from three of...
Editeur : Clarendon Press
Parution : 2001-05-10

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Télécharger le livre :  Theory of Nonequilibrium Superconductivity

This is the first text on the modern theory of superconductivity. It deals with the behaviour of superconductors in external fields varying in time, and with transport phenomena in superconductors. The book starts with the fundamentals of the first-principle,...
Editeur : Clarendon Press
Parution : 2001-05-03

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